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Carlow University plans to demolish former church to make way for development

WPXI CARLOW DEVELOPMENT David Meadows, senior vice president and CFO of Carlow University, talks about the schools development goals for its master plan at a recent community meeting. (TIM SCHOOLEY / PBT/TIM SCHOOLEY / PBT)

PITTSBURGH — Carlow University is homing in on campus-redefining project for its front door on Fifth Avenue in Oakland.

And it is signaling that it is fully committed to demolishing a former Catholic church it owns to do it.

At a community meeting hosted by Oakland Planning and Development Corp., university officials presented plans for its institutional campus master plan, a major component of which is its public-private partnership project with the Elmhurst Group to redevelop a collection of properties along the north side of Fifth Avenue into upwards of 400,000 square feet of new academic and commercial space.

Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times.




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